Oregon and the Collapse of Illahee: U.S. Empire and the Transformation of an Indigenous World, 1792-1859
Gray H. Whaley
Abstract
Modern western Oregon was a crucial site of imperial competition in North America during the formative decades of the United States. This book examines relations among newcomers and between newcomers and Native peoples—focusing on political sovereignty, religion, trade, sexuality, and the land—from initial encounters to Oregon's statehood. It emphasizes Native perspectives, using the Chinook word Illahee (homeland) to refer to the indigenous world it examines, and argues that the process of Oregon's founding is best understood as a contest between the British Empire and a nascent American one, ... More
Keywords: western Oregon, political sovereignty, religion, trade, sexuality, land, republicanism, liberal economics, violence, illahee
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2010 | Print ISBN-13: 9780807833674 |
| Published to North Carolina Scholarship Online: July 2014 | DOI:10.5149/9780807898314_whaley |
